Hawaii, one of the towns devastated by the wildfires. Cars are lined up behind me, there is roadblocks, curfew to lift at 6 00 a. M. These people waiting to see what is left of their homes. Residents are being led in but its a horrible sight to see. Take a listen to one person we spoke to yesterday. I want people to know there are people suffering and we need donations and people shipping things out in families fed. We need so much help. Home after home and lahaina gone, the Property Data aggregator core logic puts the estimator at destroyed homes at more than 3000, the rising death toll at 80 people as rescue crews search for more victims, thousands of people left the island in 1400 are currently stated emergency shelters. It is unclear how the fire started but when they did ignite the island was ripe for an inferno, dry conditions was 70 h passing Hurricane Dora fueled the flames in a challenging battle for the islands firefighters. Residents say they were given little warning of the
Likely. Were following the legal and political implications. Plus a warning to Donald Trumps legal team from the judge overseeing the election interference case, saying more inflammatory statements will require a quicker start to the trial. We are live outside the court. And the death toll as they have yet to even start searching the hundred of burned out buildings. Well take you live to maui. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Another controversial investigation that could have some pretty big repercussions for 2024 is escalating. Today a Special Counsel was designated in the federal probe of hunter biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland named david weiss to the role. Weiss has been leading this investigation. Yes, he has. Hes been leading the investigation into hunter biden for the past five years, in fact. This week he asked himself to be elevated to that role of Special Counsel. Were following that in realtime.
there will likely now be multiple investigations. paula newton is joining us live from halifax. and what will investigators focus on now? reporter: they will focus on whether or not this was a catastrophic event that entailed just one thing going wrong or if this was multiple things given the strain on that vehicle. remember, we had heard that there were quite a few successful expeditions to the titanic wreck, was there stress put on the titan which then because it was largely unregulated wasn t tested going through the motions. you ve had so many people weigh in on this and one is james cameron who he himself has been to the wreck of the titanic and other deep sea explorations. listen to him now. i think there is almost a surreal irony. the titanic sank because the captain took it into an ice field on a moonless night with poor visibility after he had been repeatedly warned by telegram, by are a during t b are a during the day that that is what was ahead. and so a p
literally, the opinions of corruption in appointing david weiss as special counsel is so obvious that is undeniable and requires observation even from the mainstream media. you are seeing a recognition of rare recognition from sources that previously would ve no ignored this entire investigation per here is jake tapper on cnn spivak i believe yet previously argued publicly that he had the right to do whatever he wanted in the whistleblower said behind-the-scenes that weiss was complaining he could not do that. he was not able to do that in the justice department and weiss denied what the whistleblowers were saying. this move makes it seem as though the whistleblowers were right and maybe they were alleging is true and he didn t have the ability to charge whatever he wanted to charge and
u.s. attorney if he you know, this was a failure, a colossal failure. the two sides had not even eagreed upon what was in that plea deal. and there are questions about whether it was harsh enough this plea deal, whether it was strong enough. beyond that there are some other questions i have which include the u.s. attorney weiss, now special counsel so one of the reasons to make him a special counsel supposedly is so he has to ability to charge in other venues outside delaware. but i believe he had previously argued publicly that he had the right to do whatever he wanted, and then the whistle-blower said, well, behind the scenes weiss was complaining he couldn t do that, he wasn t able to do that, and the justice department and weiss denied what the whistle blowers were saying, but this move makes it seem as though, well, maybe the whistle blowers were right. maybe what they were alleging is true, and he didn t have the ability to charge whatever he